Release gvl while doing (f)stat

At the moment rb_stat function is blocking. This patch changes the
behaviour to release the gvl while waiting for OS to return from
f(stat).

There is behaviour impact, but not significant (times are for 100000
iterations):

   $ ~/releaseruby_patch/bin/ruby bench.rb
Rehearsal ------------------------------------------------
File.exist?:   0.036412   0.056616   0.093028 (  0.093075)
--------------------------------------- total: 0.093028sec

                   user     system      total        real
File.exist?:   0.042953   0.049783   0.092736 (  0.092804)

   $ ~/releaseruby_no_patch/bin/ruby bench.rb
Rehearsal ------------------------------------------------
File.exist?:   0.056094   0.026293   0.082387 (  0.082389)
--------------------------------------- total: 0.082387sec

                   user     system      total        real
File.exist?:   0.037250   0.046702   0.083952 (  0.083956)

Based on the patch by Wolf <[email protected]> at [ruby-core:83012],
with using `rb_thread_io_blocking_region` for `fstat`.
[Bug #13941]

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@60027 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

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